Train connections & reservations

I booked a trip from Paris to Geneva via the Eurail platform and then reserved the seats on the website. The return train ticket worked but I got an error on the train to Geneva saying that the reservation and payment went through but the tickets couldn’t be retrieved because of a system error. Does anyone know what to do?

How does one make reservations to travel from CDG to Lyon, stay 8 days in Lyon, then travel to Lucerne and stay a day or more, then travel to Salsburg and stay a day or so, and then travel to CDG again? 

Hello! Can anyone help me recommend a route for July?I would like to leave Arad at night, arriving in Budapest at 8:50, where I will probably stay 2 nights. Can someone help me with recommendations for a route that leaves Budapest and ends up here. I would like the route to last somewhere at most 7 days, and not be necessarily long or expensive (I prefer it to be cheaper :) )I mention the fact that I have a 7-day travel pass

Hi all,I am trying to book seat reservation for TGV 6964 from Annecy to Paris on July 17th. It seems like it is not running on that date or the day before. Does anyone know of any planned interruption or any other reason why it it would not run on those dates?Thanks in advance,Kasper

Realmente es necesario tener impresos en papel las reservas????

This my family’s first time using Eurail in Italy and I have just a couple questions. After getting the passes for my family a couple months back I first used the website to route our travel and made all of the necessary reservations. Then, just a couple weeks back we activated our passes in the app, looked up those same routes and added those journeys to our passes. I’m still getting emails from Eurail however reminding me to make my reservations, which I have already made. Was the order in which I first made reservations and then created the journeys and add them to our passes in the app wrong? Related to this, for those trains in which we have reservations, do we need to only show the train attendants that PDF ticket, or do we also show them the QR code for the same journey in the app? Finally, those Trenitalia reservations ticket don’t indicate whether they need to be printed or can just be shown on our phones. Are printed tickets necessary? Thanks very much.

Trying to do my reservations needed and app doesn’t work/ load the page for the reservation. Then it clicks to an error message. Try on the desktop rather than app and even though I sign in my trip and pass aren’t there. Can anyone explain why I am doing wrong lol 

Hello, we are traveling to Germany, Austria and Switzerland in June/Julyi have one leg left to book and can’t get anything to work. Need to book seat reservations from Rothenburg de o Tauber to Grindelwald. We have the Global Eurail 1st Class Pass. Have tried Eurail site, DB, SBB, and can’t get it to secure. On Eurail, it never prompts me to enter credit card number, it just processes and then errors out. I’ve cleared cache, changed computers, gone incognito. any help would be appreciated!!!

Does anyone know if you need to reserve a seat on this train? I've just looked the timetables up and says the train we need to take (08.55) is fully booked?  EDIT: to change the train time

Seat Reservation unavailable on Eurail but available on RailEurope? Why is this? I have a Global Pass. Need to book Barcelona to Narbonne on 22 Sep 2025. Thank you,    

Hi, First time Interailer looking to book onto the OBB Nightjet from Brussels Midi to Wien Salzburg. I clicked on the booking option on the Interail site but just get this message.No price results were found. Pass holder reservations may be sold out for this connection, but there are other ways to check for available seats—more info below our timetable.I there another way to book a reservation on this night train as our current trip is sort of built around it? Maybe naive to think I could just book after buying my pass but any advice would be really appreciated. Travel date for night train would be departing Monday 7th July.Thanks,Andy

hello, i was wondering how late i can wait to decide which train and on which day i want to take the train? Is it possible to change your mind on the travel day if already booked? 

I am planning to travel to France with the Single Country-France Pass. I am traveling from Cologne, Germany to Brittany. The first part of the trip would be a Eurostar train from Cologne Hbf - Paris Nord (e.g.: EST 9426). As I understood, the single country pass does not allow for an included trip to the border within the home country, as the Global Pass does. The Eurostar goes from Cologne to Paris, via Belgium. The question is now, which ticket option I would need to cover the leg from Cologne to the part where the train enters France and technically becomes valid?Do I need to buy an additional ticket for this part or what are my options?Any help or tips & tricks are much appreciated :)

From 1/2/2025, so already 1 month ago, 2 more carriers started accepting Interrail and Eurail passes: Koleje Wielkopolskie (KW) and Arriva RP.Source:https://www.rynek-kolejowy.pl/wiadomosci/pkp-intercity-i-koleje-regionalne-ulatwiaja-podroze--122327.htmlhttps://www.intercity.pl/pl/site/dla-pasazera/kup-bilet/honorowanie-biletow-pkp-ic-w-pociagach-innych-przewoznikow/honorowania-biletow-miedzynarodowych.html​@Eurail Community Moderator Could the information on the Interrail and Eurail websites and in the Rail planner app please be updated?

Trip from Ghent St Pieters, Belgium to Paris du Nord. Train itinerary in eurail  has me just making a 15 min transfer to take train from Brussels Midi to Paris Nord but also states that I should allow extra time for boarding. Does this mean I should not book this in one go, and consider making this two separate train routes in the itinerary. One from Ghent to Brussels Midi and a separate one from Midi to Paris to allow more transfer time? How early I should be there before train departs?  

j, ai réservé un train pour Budapest-Nyuagati Prague hlavni nadrazi pour le mardi 8 juillet (11:30 arrivée 18:15) et j’ai le QRC code sur l’appli EUdiscover (il y a marqué que c’est le billet à présenter pour l’inspection). J’ai voulu réserver des places assises ( non obligatoires) mais à l’heure tout pile il y a marqué qu’il y avait déjà plus de places… Comment je fais? Est-ce que je peux tout de même aller dans le train avec mon QRcode ? ou Est-ce que le billet ne fonctionne pas pour le train ? Autre question, pour les prochains trains où les places assises sont obligatoires, comment cela se passse si je n’arrive pas à avoir de places assises mais que j’ai tout de même le billet QRcode sur l’appli?Merci d’avance

Hi everyone,I’m currently planning my summer trip across Europe and I’ll be travelling from London to Edinburgh Waverley. I’m using a Eurail Global Pass (15 days) and wanted to confirm: Does my Eurail Global Pass cover this route? If yes, is a seat reservation mandatory, or can I just board the train using my pass? Any tips on which train service (LNER, Avanti, etc.) is best for scenery or ease of reservation? Appreciate any guidance or experience you can share — thank you!

Hello, i was going to reserve seats for my friend and I for 3rd august, from barcelona to lyon but it says sold out. However, i find it odd that it is sold out so quickly. Is it possible to head down the train station in Spain and reserve the seats etc still? I can head down to a train station in Bilbao but not Barcelona though, and do i need my friend’s passport etc? Do advise thanks!!

Hi there, I am looking at a day trip from Würzburg to Rothenburg ob der Tauber on the 18/10/2025. From the DB website, I will need to take RE10, RB81, RB82 with a total journey time of 2h 10m. But yet if I go back to the 9/10/2025 and earlier, there is the RE80 available which will shorten the trip by an hour. Is the RE80 on some sort of seasonal schedule?ThanksJackson

Hello everyone, I would really appreciate any insight or recommendation on what to do about this error. I’ve narrowed to when I try to reserve a seat for 1 of my family members, everyone else work perfectly, but every time I try to book for him, the error shows up. Thank you in advance!!  

Hi!Me and my girlfriend are planning to go on a trip with the Interrail global pass between July 4-10. We have looked up some routes, though on some days we have to change trains to reach our next destination. Our concern is that we may not we able to catch the next train if the first train arrives late due to the transfer time being 15 minutes. I have two questions about this:1:If we miss our transfer because the first train was late can we get a refound or some compensation on the seat-reservations?2: On the pictures below you can see the routes and the trains we would like to take. Do you think we can transfer from one train to another without any problems? Are delays greater than 10 minutes common on these lines?Thank you for your answers. 

I am travelling from Lecco to Ventimiglia in early September 2025.  The schedule in July has a direct train from Milan to Ventimiglia but the trains in September require changing 2-3 times.  Are the schedules that are there now what they will be for September or will they get updated again? Would prefer to have a direct train from Milan.

Hi, I’m trying to reserve a seat (have a global pass) from Milan to Nice on 21st August. I understand that reservations should be bookable now being less than 4 months away. The maninseat61 site says to go via Ventimiglia but no results come up. When I try to search for Milan>Ventimiglia in case the French trains aren’t reservable, it says I have to change to Torino but I thought it should be direct?Is there something else I need to try?

Hi everyone,I am planning for our first trip to Europe, and I have a few questions around seat reservations that I haven’t been able to find the answers for so far. I hope someone can assist me on this.1.    Apart from Eurostar, what other trains have limited seats available for pass holder? I will be travelling on the following trains:IC ICE EC RJX2.    When I book my seat reservations directly with the rail companies (e.g. OBB, DB, CD etc), do I have to explicitly specify that I will be using a Eurail pass? For DB and CD (Czech), I don’t see where I can select Eurail pass during the seat reservation process. As for OBB, I can only see I can add “Interrail/Eurail – Globalpass” as a “discount” during the process but I don’t know whether that is necessary/relevant. I am trying avoid surprises as much as possible, thanks for any assistance in advance. 😀ThanksJackson

For some reason, the website doesn’t let me delete a trip from my cart (a seat reservation I haven’t checked out). Because of that, it assumes I have used the two credits I have left, so I can’t book any other trips.